I’m looking for a solution to my problem, and not sure if this could be it.
At the moment I have my website on WordPress and I’ve been needing a forum board for users. But I’ve had to have it so you have a account with proboards and a seperate account with WordPress for the main website.
I want it so you have one account for both of them. While being able to comment on the boards and contribute on the main website.
will bbPress allow me to do this? If not, what will?
Thanks in advance
-Andy
I don’t think there was a 404.php template until the 1.0 version. What did you do to create one and how did you expect it to work?
You could always do a custom error page with Apache and .htaccess, but I understand you wanting to create a 404.php template page (like WordPress and bbPress in the 1.0 series.)
I want to list the few tags that each topic has associated with it on the forum.php or front-page.php like how WordPress does with the_tags(), but not have the delete link or tags form. As it is right now I can’t find a function that will just list the topics tags outside of the topics.php, can someone help me please?
The new Freelance Switch bbPress forum is going live in 2 or 3 days and this is literally the last things that I need to do.
A few people struggled with that exact problem in this thread… several solutions were mapped out:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-36870
Here’s to hoping one of them works for you!
ps are you using ck’s or SuperAnne’s plugins to ensure cookie compatibility between bbPress v 0.9 and WordPress v. 2.7?
I have searched the forum for answers to this, and there are certainly lots of threads on the topic. But no matter what I try, I get an error about the “admin” account already existing, and the install fails.
I recently tried to install bbPress 0.9.0.5 with WordPress MU version 2.7.1 and I keep running into trouble. The bbPress installation, when trying to integrate and share the database, will not allow me to specify the “admin” account as the bbPress key master. It fails saying that this account exists already.
Has anyone run into this? Should I be using a different version of bbPress? Does it matter that I already installed BuddyPress plugin, version 1.0-rc-3 ?
I have seen several tutorials on the bbPress – buddyPress – WPMU combo, but I don’t think they were using the very recent versions that I have. SO if anyone has very current experience, that would be extremely helpful. Or perhaps I just need to use older versions that match the tutorials.
@r-a-y
OK then, you really need to upgrade.
Here’s how I would do it…
- De-integrate cookies, clear out all cookie settings in bbPress/WordPress including hardcoded ones in configs with the exception of you secret keys (BB_AUTH_KEY and friends)
- Upgrade to the latest Trunk of bbPress
- Upgrade to the latest release of the bbPress Integration plugin
- Clear all relevant cookies in your browser
- Setup integration in WordPress first, go to the admin panel for the plugin – use the settings it gives you to use in your wp-config.php file
- Setup integration in bbPress second, if the plugin in WordPress tells you to add a special constant to bb-config.php, do that now too. You’ll need to login to bbPress separately at this stage. Only enter settings into the admin, don’t try to add anything back into your bb-config.php except that one line from the WordPress plugin
- Now you should be good to go again, clear your browser cookies and try various ways to login and logout
Visit the WordPress Codex and search for information on apply_filters().
You can filter that array with a simple plugin.
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After the Update to bbPress Version 1.0-rc-3 my problems are gone. I think everyone should test there used plugins, backup and then test the update. Can’t wait for bbPress 1. 
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cookie-integration-problem-wp28-bb-10-rc-2
Know what? I got fed up with my hosting service. ;P
I spent the entire morning working on my bbPress implementation, and had an epiphany about ten minutes ago. I asked myself… ‘Why in the name of the seven seas are you using Concentric?’ When I couldn’t come up with a better answer than ‘it’s what I always use’, I whipped out Google, entered the term ‘best wordpress hosting service’, was routed to WordPress’ hosting page, and I just signed up with bluehost.
So… this is now all moot (hopefully). I’m planning on just working on CONTENT after my nameserver updates happen! YAY!!!!!!!
I feel like going on vacation
All
Since I’ve never developed a plugin for bbPress before …
Does anyone mind pointing me in the direction of where I should begin.
I would like to attempt to port WordPress Super Cache (output cache) plugin to bbPress for non-logged in users.
@Atsutane – I had slightly misunderstood how to use the filters in the Latest Discussion plugin, and I realize I can get closer than I thought with that plugin. However, I don’t think I can get all the way there. The bbld_forum filter seems to be applied to the variables before they have been given values, right? So, you could, as in the example, replace a specific gravatar based on the $user_data variable. But is it possible to get the $forum variable in the same way? What I need is to determine the forum ID within my filter function.
Frooyo – I think the WP Super Cache is just being used on top of WordPress MU, which is the core engine for BuddyPress…
Great, thank you. I hope that will solve my problem.
Immelody, just curious if you could give a quick run through of how you were able to apply (or convert) your wordpress theme to bbpress. I’ve been trying to learn how to do it, and so far what I’ve read is to copy the header and footer from wordpress to bbpress. Problem is I’m not that great at programming so it’s a bunch of guess work. I’ve been trying to do it unsuccessfully for about 3 months now…
Sorry to bother you, but if you could help I’d really appreciate it and I’m sure it would help others as well!
Edit: I forgot to mention I have the databases integrated although I’m not sure how I managed that
It’s just recreating the theme that is really stumping me.
WordPress is working great. I had a couple of minor config details on the install, but it went in marvelously.
I know what the problem is. It’s bb_repermalink. It’s creating 404s and endless loops because the code inside it can’t handle the way SunOS sets up it’s system variables. The problem is, I don’t know what the stupid thing is supposed to do, so I cant figure out if the code is fixed or broken (and of course there are exactly zero tech docs on either it or bbPress). There are some REALLY strange regex replace operations in there that frankly look wrong to me, but I don’t know enough about bb at the moment to know how to fix them.
I’m going to completely disable repermalink tomorrow, and see if I can get the rest of the system to work without it. I tried that a bit ago and at least got past the first page. (although it told me, when I clicked on one of the forums it was displaying that the forum didn’t exist. At least that’s better than 404s and infinite loops.)
Not caring about SunOS is shortsighted in my view, and calling the current code ‘Golden’ would be a mistake. What I’m seeing in bb_permalink is going to cause major problems in tons of non-Sun machines, I believe. If they release 1.0 the way it is, I predict it will crash on a large percentage of WP users’ machines and engender a great deal of dissatisfaction as a result.
My 2c, for what it’s worth.
Ah I see you’ve been going back and forth with Sam in trac:
https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1126
It looks like he moved it into the version 1.5 milestone… not sure what that means priority wise. But it sounded like he was saying that SunOS support isn’t a priority on the official roadmap. But developer support isn’t the only path here – someone may be able to come up with a plugin to add Solaris support! Especially if we can define exactly what the issue is.
Right now probably isn’t the best time to get bandwidth from Sam, since bbPress 1.0 seems to be in the process of going gold in the next week or so.
Just out of curiosity – does WordPress have any issues running on Solaris?
@Sam
Does your message imply that if we use trunk, then WordPress static caching will work in bbPress?
I won’t be able to get to bbPress Live until after 1.0 is released. Hopefully that’s in a couple of days.
Right, that works fine too. It wasn’t so much about bbPress but about running WordPress in a different folder than the webroot. Got it.
I’ll be glad to PayPal someone $20 to add a simple navigation header to my forums.
My main site is at http://www.jawsurgeryblog.com
I would like a similar header, doesn’t have to be perfect, but simply include the logo and navigation links, at the top of my forums here:
http://www.jawsurgeryblog.com/forums/
Just let me know which wordpress and bbpress files you would need, unless you can do it all via View Source, then as soon as it’s up and running, I’ll PayPal the $20 right away.
If you need anything else, just let me know.
Thanks,
Brandon
http://www.jawsurgeryblog.com/contact-me/
chrishajer – Not exactly.
I NEVER put WP in the root, after (in the 1.* days) it pitched a hissy fit with another web app over permalinks and htaccess. And since you can run WP out of root while having it in a subfolder, and no one can tell the difference, it works rather well.
I have this:
/var/www/example/index.php <which points to the wordpress folder>
/var/www/example/wordpress/<wordpress files>
accessible here http://www.example.com/ and here http://www.example.com/wordpress/wp-admin
/var/www/example/bbpress/
accessible here http://www.example.com/bbpress/
With this, once I got my auth keys in order, it worked fine. I’m not saying it can’t be done your way (and hey, if it works, leave it alone!
), I’m just saying that I’ve seen it cause more headaches.
Yeah, I think I’ll just get WordPress 2.7 and Unstable version of BBpress so I don’t have to deal with crap. Not like 2.8 has anything major to offer anyway.
bbPress Live claims on its download page to only be compatible up to 2.6.2. I tried it anyway, and it did not work. The widgets did not function at all, and the template functions did not pull any forum data.
bbPress Live works fine with 2.8 unless you’re doing deep integration. As for with deep integration, I’m not sure if the error is with my files or with the plugin itself. I have discussed it with Sam. But unless you’re doing deep integration, Live works with 2.8.
I was using it until I decided to change the look of my website. When I went to PixoPoint’s Theme Generator, it called for having deep integration. And since I’m far too busy right now (I’m not a coder or anything like that for a living.. I’m a mother), I didn’t feel like doing all the work arounds to get the same functionality as I had previously. But if you have a bbPress that doesn’t need deep integration, I highly recommend bbPress Live.